ABSTRACT
Nowhere else in American society do we poll a general population to see what they think about using these racialized words and icons. Imagine asking White southerners whether Jim Crow language and imagery was “racist” or not during the Civil Rights Movement.2 We as a society have begrudgingly learned to agree not to use or abuse racist language that causes such great hurt and dismay, and that is historically located in our history of racism. And yet we blatantly do so with American Indian peoples.
